Re: a guide to dating - 14C

Stephen Jones (sjones@iinet.com.au)
Mon, 25 Sep 95 06:59:51 EDT

Bill

On Fri, 22 Sep 1995 08:12:45 -0500 you wrote:

>Stephen writes
SJ>I can accept...that science can date age of the Earth at 4.6
billion
>years, using the Uranium-Lead method. However, I am not so sure
>that it can date using such short ages as 5 MY using the U-Pb
>method. Does anyone know what method was used to date Glenn's
>exhibits?

BH>I can giver a partial answer from my recollections of what Glenn
said in
>his book. However, the best person to answer it is probably Glenn.
>First, I believe Glenn is quite confident about the dating of the flooding
>of the Mediterranean. But I don't believe much if any evidence is
>available of human artifacts which would support his thesis.

[...]

>...the flooding of the Mediterranean is considered pretty well established
>by the geology and oceanography communities -- it was not Glenn's
invention.

Sorry. My point was meant to apply only to the human artifacts in
ranges
of only hundreds of thousands of years. I have no problem with dating
the
flooding of the Mediterranean at 5.5MY.

God bless.

Stephen

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